A brand new trailer has been released for the Young Justice video-game which is set to be titled Young Justice: Legacy. The game is of course based upon the popular Young Justice series.
Young Justice: Legacy is an action packed RPG that is said to bridge the gap between the first and second season of the Young Justice TV series. In Young Justice: Legacy it won’t just take one hero to save the day it will take twelve heroes, so you know that it is gonna be pretty intense in that case.
Young Justice: Legacy will launch on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Wii U in Spring 2013. Be sure to check out the trailer for the game below.
Can you feel the excitement in the air? Is the smell of burning rubber filling your nostrils and the hum of a revving motor in your ears? Today is filled with the excitement and anticipation of a race day and that is because Codemasters have taken their foot off the break and Grid 2 has shot out of pole position and into stores everywhere.
I think that just about exhausts the amount of racing puns I can make, but the latest racing simulator from the people who brought us Race Driver: GRID, Dirt and Dirt Showdown is upon us, complete with an approximately 30-hour campaign, dynamically changing racetracks and an insane amount of multiplayer race options. Alongside the game’s release comes the official launch of RaceNet, the online hub for Grid 2 players all across the globe.
RaceNet keeps track of your stats (including how clean or dirty a driver you are) and assigns you objectives, goals and even online rivals accordingly. The service also allows you to upload clips directly to YouTube – so if you are in a wicked accident, simply hit a button and soon the world is watching you total a million dollar racing machine. RaceNet is definitely the engine that will keep Grid 2 running on all cylinders for many years to come (Ok that was one more pun than I intended, sorry guys). By clicking here you can sign yourself up for free, even if you don’t own the game yet.
In order to properly celebrate the game’s release, Codemasters have debuted a launch trailer which you can check out below. The trailer features a bunch of really pretty cars driving really fast. We will have a full breakdown and review of Grid 2 coming within the next few days, so be sure to stay tuned to Capsule Computers for our thoughts.
If you won’t be making it to E3 this year because getting from London to L.A feels like nothing short of a reluctant pilgrimage, then fear not. The UK is to receive its own coinciding event by the name of EToo, which has already gained sponsorship from SonyPlaystation, Gamestick and the developers of the upcoming Android based PlayJam console. Over 30 game developers are booked to appear at the convention to showcase their latest projects and hold developer sessions.
Keith Stuart, the games commissioning editor at The Guardian newspaper and co-founder of the event, spoke recently with regards to how it all began:
“This started off with me sulking on Twitter about not being able to go to E3…Game developer Georg Backer replied and said we should do our own event. It probably should have ended there, but somehow it didn’t. The next thing is, Jimmy Dance, the owner of Loading Bar in Soho, was offering to host it. It was sort of like one of those Hollywood musicals – ‘hey, let’s put a show on right here’. But with less dancing.”
Confirmed to coincide with E3’s dates, the event will run from the 10th – 13th of June in the Loading Bar in Soho, London. If this sounds like the games Expo for you, tickets are now available.
For the latest updates on the convention, be sure to follow the organizers on Twitter.
Set in the year 2048, the Gruckezber Corporation selects a handful of chosen citizens to join the Magtech training program for space exploration. Equipped with a special glove using Gruckezber’s technology, the candidates have to solve their way through a maze of challenge rooms, by magnetically charging objects that will attract or repel each other.
Soon enough an earthquake disrupts all the fun and games and aptly unleashes the horrors of Cthulhu within the hi-tech training facility. Check out the screens below and visit the official site and Facebook page for more info.
Developed in Melbourne, Australia by Trickstar Games, this year’s iteration of the series sports a new graphics engine along with 360 degree control of shot placement for batsmen, a new line and length bowling system and complete freedom to set a field of the player’s choice.
Players not wanting to have to go through the trouble of placing a field have the option for intelligent, automatic field placement.
For more info on Ashes Cricket 2013 visit the official website, Facebook and Twitter pages.
Ahead of it’s June 20th release, we have two new clips for Paramount‘s World War Z starring Brad Pitt and directed by Marc Forster (Finding Neverland, Quantum of Solace).
First is the clip ‘Broken Mirror’, which highlights the moment Gerry Lane (Pitt) and his family are alerted to the pandemic, up close and personal. You can see that video directly below. Next is ‘I Can’t Leave My Family’, which can be viewed embedded at the bottom of this article.
Broken Mirror
Pitt and Forster will be visiting Down Under for the Sydney Premiere on June 9th. Click here for details on the event and check out the latest international trailer along with our own impressions of a small portion of the film we were previewed earlier in the year.
Guerrilla Games blew everyone away with their demo of Killzone: Shadow Fall at the PlayStation Meeting 2013. Now, the developers have shared their thoughts on bringing the game to the PlayStation 4 as a launch title in Sony‘s latest Conversations with Creators piece.
Holiday season 2013 gamers around the world will be able to experience the next-generation of gaming with Killzone: Shadow Fall on the PS4. In the video, the team at Guerrilla discuss what it means to them to help usher in a new era in the video games industry. You can view the developer diary embedded below.
K-ON! The Movie Studio:Kyoto Animation Publisher:Sentai Filmworks Format: DVD, Blu-ray (Reviewed) Release Date: May 21, 2013 Price:$39.98 – Available Here
Overview Every good thing must eventually come to an end and even the most popular series must come to a finish. The K-ON! anime series took the industry by storm back when the first series was released in 2009 and after releasing two successful anime series, it is time for most of the girls in After School Tea Time to graduate. However such an occasion deserves a movie of its own and now that Sentai Filmworks has brought K-ON! The Movie to North America, is this cinematic finale worth your time?
Story The end of the school year is fast approaching and the four senior members of After School Tea Time, Yui, Mio, Tsumugi and Ritsu, have already settled into the senior slump where they are waiting for their graduation to come around. Each of them have been accepted into the college of their choice so as far as academics go, this laid back group has little to worry about.
That is of course until they realize that their junior club member Azusa will be left behind in the Light Music Club by herself after they all graduate. As the four senior girls try to come up with a gift to give Azusa before they leave, they decide to go on a trip with the entire club as one final hurrah before graduation. After a bit of comedic planning, the club’s pet turtle makes the choice for them and the girls are off to London for a five day vacation.
Once the girls arrive in London, they experience a number of your standard vacation antics, only made worse by the fact that barely any of the girls speak English properly (though this is an English dub so expect a bit of disconnect here) so this places them in a number of awkward situations due to the language barrier. As the girls spend time in London, the seniors continue to come up with a parting gift for Azusa and while their final decision is a bit predictable, the deliverance of said gift is a poignant bittersweet moment that ends the movie on a high note.
Being a movie about K-ON!, there isn’t much of a plot to be concerned with here and instead the movie focuses mostly on the bonds that these girls share and London is simply a new area with new situations for them to experience. While, as I mentioned earlier, a lot of the mishaps they get into are your standard vacationing in a foreign country accidents but they still are rather humorous given the fact that these characters have been built up with fans for two whole seasons already.
All in all, this film provides a successful goodbye to a series and cast of characters that fans have enjoyed through two anime seasons already. It is light-hearted, has a number of music pieces and hits just the right emotional notes to deliver a successful farewell that feels like it goes out to not only Azusa, but fans of the franchise at the same time.
Visuals One term that started to be tossed around a lot back when K-ON! became very popular was the term “moeblob.” It likely occurred before this series, however it was the first time I witnessed it being referenced to any show and while this does mean that the characters were designed to be overly saccharine, for a show like K-ON! this isn’t a bad thing. In the movie the character designs remain largely the same that we’ve seen throughout the anime series, just of higher quality and in new outfits.
Interestingly enough, the most noteworthy part of K-ON! the movie is how detailed parts of London are. Perhaps thanks to a bonus feature I will discuss later, many of the areas in London are nicely detailed and perform a great backdrop to the girls as they explore many of the most popular and famous landmarks of London.
Audio Sentai Filmworks provided both the original Japanese voice track as well as their own English dub to the series with this release and with how this show features the girls traveling to London, it actually warrants watching the series in both tracks for equally enjoyable experiences. The English track by Sentai is nicely handled and it is a nice touch that the girls struggle to understand the various British slang and thick British accents that the English cast has given the local London population.
As for the Japanese voice track, viewers are presented with English speaking London residents and Japanese girls struggling to understand even the smallest phrases. At their best a few of the girls can speak English well enough to be understood but a lot of the humor comes from them trying and ultimately failing miserably to get their points across the language barrier. This creates an exceptional experience that deserves to be watched twice as both the English and Japanese tracks have a unique flavor of their own.
Being an anime about a music club, there are a decent number of music pieces throughout the movie and Sentai has chosen to stick with the original Japanese voice work for these songs and have provided English subtitles for them. This is probably a wise decision as these songs are nicely handled by the original cast and are enjoyable to listen to, even if they are spaced out a bit too much.
Extras K-ON! The Movie comes with a bevy of bonus features, enough that they actually surpass the length of the movie itself. There are your standard inclusions such as a clean opening and ending theme, Japanese trailers, teasers and television spots but alongside these are some exceptional video features that have been given English subtitles.
These include a Good Luck Music Hall promotion, the movie premiere event in Japan, the Japanese voice cast arriving in a double-decker bus to provide a press conference at TBS and two more bonuses. These bonuses are a dubbing investigative report which features interviews with the main voice actresses of the series just after a dubbing session and a special half hour feature that follows Director Naoko Yamada to London as she explores London and experiences the city first hand to create events for the girls to experience in their trip. This is the most noteworthy extra as it shows the amount of work the director put into making the movie authentic and it is interesting to re-watch the movie again to see how many of the events she experienced were implemented into the film.
Overall K-ON! The Movie has everything that fans of the series could ask for. It is light-hearted and brings the girls to a new area to experience brand new things which results in a number of humorous situations and misunderstandings as they try to plan a present for Azusa and deliver a number of musical performances throughout their trip. While some of the situations they end up in are a bit stereotypical, the movie provides a great ending that will satisfy fans of this popular series.
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Today Famitsu released a couple of gameplay trailers for Killer is Dead and in these trailers we are shown a Gigolo mission in action for the first time. We’ve seen a handful of screenshots of what we can expect from these types of missions and now we can see how Mondo will interact with a girl in these missions.
Also released today was a video showing off a mission from the main game called “The Tiger that Faded into the Darkness.” Currently the game is being released in North America by XSEED Games and by Deep Silver in Europe and it will arrive on store shelves sometime in August.
A world leader in gaming hardware and peripherals, Razer has today announced two new gaming laptops – the 17-inch Blade Pro and the 14-inch Blade.
Powered by a future 4th gen Intel Core processor, next generation NVIDIA GeForce GTX 765M graphics card and ground-breaking storage performance, the new Blade Pro is faster and more powerful than ever before. Razer’s goal was to design a beast of a gaming laptop that doesn’t compromise on portability in order to provide the power needed to live up to that reputation; it is the most portable laptop in its class, at only 0.88 inches thin and weighing just 6.5 pounds. Razer co-founder, CEO and creative director Min-Liang Tan said;
With the Razer Blade Pro, we’ve designed a gaming laptop for work and for play—appealing to on-the-go hardcore gamers, game developers, creative artists and aspiring video professionals. The Razer Blade Pro can flawlessly run the most popular creative software applications, and is powerful enough to run the most graphically intensive games on the market today.
Vice president and general manager of notebook GPUs at NVIDIA, Rene Haas, added;
The Razer Blade Pro packs extreme performance in an ultra-portable form factor. Thanks in part to the performance-per-watt efficiency of the new NVIDIA GeForce GTX GPUs, the new Razer Blade Pro is incredibly thin for a 17-inch gaming laptop.
At the heart of the Blade Pro is a full-HD 17-inch LED display linked in combination with the Switchblade User Interface (SBUI), allowing users to take advantage of tools and creative possibilities at their fingertips. Driven by 10 dynamic adaptive tactile keys, a revolutionary LCD track pad and professional-grade and game apps, users can work harder and play harder. Razer’s SBUI now includes several new, professional-grade apps and a wide array of new tools available at no charge, including programs like Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Premiere Pro, Maya, GIMP and more.
Check out the other product features listed below, as well as a video and gallery showing them off. The Blade Pro is available for pre-order from www.razerzone.com/bladepro in the U.S. and Canada, and is slated for release on June 3rd at a price point of $2,299 USD.
Product features:
Future 4th gen Intel Core processor (formerly codename ‘Haswell’)
Built-in 74 Wh Rechargeable lithium ion polymer battery
Kensington Lock
16.8 in. / 427 mm (Width) x 0.88 in. / 22.4 mm (Height) x 10.9 in. / 277 mm (Depth)
6.58 lbs. / 2.98 kg
The Razer Blade Pro
The Blade is the little brother, but still packs quite a punch; in fact, at just 0.66-inches thin, it packs more power-per-cubic-inch than any other laptop in the world.
Min-Liang Tan stated;
We’ve designed and built the thinnest, most powerful 14-inch laptop in the world. Thinner than a dime and more powerful than other traditional desktop replacements today, we’ve created an entirely new category of thin and powerful laptops that is generations ahead of other PCs.
Navin Shenoy, vice president and general manager of Intel‘s Mobile Client Platforms, also weighed in on the Blade;
Incredible innovation is happening across the computing landscape, and the new mobile gaming experience Razer is delivering with the Edge, and now its Blade, is remarkable. Powered by a future 4th gen Intel Core processor, people can expect the highest level performance from the Blade for the most discerning gamer.
Check out the other product features listed below, as well as a video and gallery showing them off. The Blade is available for pre-order from www.razerzone.com/blade in the U.S. and Canada, and is slated for release on June 3rd at a price point of $1,799 USD.
Product features:
Future 4th gen Intel Core processor (formerly codename ‘Haswell’)
13.6 in. / 345 mm (Width) x 0.66 in. / 16.8 mm (Height) x 9.3 in. / 235 mm (Depth)
4.135 lbs. / 1.876 kg
The Razer Blade
Razer is also offering a new creative professional pricing program allowing design students, game developers, development staff, Kickstarter partners and others to purchase Razer products, including the Blade Pro, at special prices. Selected developers and partners are listed atwww.razerzone.com/creativepro. Those not listed are being encouraged to fill out an application on the page for a chance to be included in the program.
